The Fall of Great Moravia : Who Was Buried in Grave H153 at Pohansko near Břeclav?

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 The Great Moravian Rotunda at Pohansko and an Osteobiographical Profile of Its Founder -- Chapter 2 The Austrian Danube Region in the Decades Around 900 -- Chapter 3 The Magyars and Their Contribution to the Collapse and Fall of Great Moravia: Allies, Neighbours, Enemies -- Chapter 4 The Second Life of the Mojmirid Dukes -- Chapter 5 Graves, Churches, Culture and Texts: The Processes of Christianisation in the Early Middle Ages and Their Social and Cultural Context -- Chapter 6 "Founder Tombs" in Early Medieval Carantania: A Survey -- Chapter 7 Great Moravia, the Beginnings of Přemyslid Bohemia and the Problem of Cultural Change -- Conclusion Who Was the Man Buried in Grave H153 in Pohansko and What Happened to Him and His Family at the End of Great Moravia? -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume focuses on a nobleman's grave found in a ninth-century building near Pohansko, an important centre of Great Moravia, to reconsider the wider frameworks of Moravian power, society, and culture.

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